Local Piezoresponse and Thermal Behavior of Ferroelastic Domains in Multiferroic BiFeO3 Thin Films by Scanning Piezo-Thermal Microscopy

A dual probe, i.e., high resolution scanning piezo-thermal microscopy, is developed and employed to characterize the local piezoresponse and thermal behaviors of ferroelastic domains in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films. Highly in- homogeneous piezoelectric responses are found in the thin film. A remarkably local thermal transformation across ferroelastic domain walls is clearly demonstrated by the quantitative 3w signals related to thermal conductivity. Different polarization oriented ferroelastic domains are found to exhibit different local thermal responses. The underlying mechanism is possibly associated with the inhomogeneous stress distribution across the ferroelastic domain wails, leading to different phonons scattering contributions in the BiFeO3 thin film.     

An Alternating-Current Voltage Modulated Thermal Probe Technique for Local Seebeck Coefficient Characterization

Nanostructured and nanocomposite thermoelec- tric materials have recently attracted a great deal of attention due to the optimization of thermal and electrical transports for high thermoelectric performance The initial ideas for the applica- tions of nano-structures in thermoelectric materials are that the lattice thermal conductivity can be de- pressed by the scattering of nano-particles or nano- boundaries as well as the enhanced electron density of states at the Fermi level. The latter is expected to enhance Seebeck coefficients due to the fact that the low energy carriers can be filtered by nano-sized grain boundaries. Lowered thermal conductivity and enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit have been ob- served in lots of bulk materials with nanostructures or nano-impurities. However, the thermal and electrical transports in these nano-materials are usually mea- sured by normal commercial systems, in which only the statistical values of the transports are obtained. The characterization of local thermoelectric parame- ters still remains a challenging task at the submicro, even nanometer level as a powerful tool for Scanning probe microscopy nanostructure imaging and local properties characterization, has become a promis- ing technique for measuring local thermal and electri- cal properties, like scanning tunneling microscopy, scanning thermal microscopy, and scanning Joule expansion microscopy. Recent work has demon- strated simultaneously determined the thermal con- ductivity and Seebeek coefficient of Bi2Se3 thin film by a microprobe technique.     

叠层/转角二维原子晶体结构与极化激元的近场光学表征

极化激元是一种光与物质发生强相互作用形成的准粒子,可以极大地压缩光波长,提供一种突破衍射极限的光调制方式,为纳米光子学、非线性光学、量子光学等相关学科的发展提供了重要支持.范德瓦耳斯二维原子晶体是研究极化激元的理想平台,通过叠层、转角可以为极化激元的调控提供额外的自由度,从而展示出新颖的光学结构和极化激元特性.本文以近场光学为主要研究方法,对近几年出现的叠层及转角二维原子晶体的各种光学结构及极化激元进行综述.综述内容包括叠层石墨烯的畴结构、转角二维原子晶体的莫尔超晶格结构、转角二维拓扑极化激元、转角石墨烯手性等离激元等.最后,对叠层/转角二维原子晶体及其极化激元的未来发展进行展望.